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What You Need:

• Colorful plastic cups (10 or so per student ... if you have less, that's ok, the snake will just be smaller).
• Pantyhose leg (make sure no one needs it anymore).
• Newspaper.
• A sharp pencil, pen, awl or other sharp instrument for poking holes.
• Construction paper
• Markers
• A pair of scissors
• Optional: Colorful plastic plates (2 per student).
• Optional: Paper Fasteners (you can just use hot glue instead).
• Optional: Fishing line (if you have it).

What You Do:

• Using the pen (or an awl - with an adults help) punch a hole in the base of each cup.

• Thread the cups onto the pantyhose leg, through the holes you have punched. To space the cups, put a piece of balled up newspaper into each cup after it is threaded.

• At the front of your line of cups, cut and paste a construction paper tongue. and draw a set of eyes onto the first cup, to create a face for the snake.
  OR (try this as an optional way to create the snake's head)
  • To make the snake's head, cut the rim of a plastic plate and punch two small holes for the eyes.

  • Punch a large hole at the edge of the plate between the eyes and thread the pantihose through this hole.

  • Thread the pantihose through the base of another cup which will be the mouth. Tie a knot in the end of the pantihose.

  • Cut the base off two plastic cups to make eyes. Attach the eyes to the paper plate head using either paper fasteners or hot glue.

• Cut a triangular piece for a tail, punch a hole in it and fasten it to the end of the snake's body.

• You can attach fishing line to the snake and hang the snake from the ceiling.

Did You Know?

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